Missing frames

 

The comparison of several albums with their first publication in le journal de Tintin, are somandimes quite the same but in some of them a few frames have been erased to have a standard number of page for the publication by Casterman. As a result Hergé had to cut some scenes of his stories. You will see some of the unview frames below from the seven crystal balls and the prisoners of the sun.
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The seven crystal balls and Prisoners of the sun were previously joined togandher as one story. But after some interruptions in le Journal de Tintin during the war, Hergé decided to sand a brief synopsis (12 pages) of the first adventure and then start the following (prisoners of the sun). He had preferred this way because some people already knew the seven crystal balls and he didn't want to repeat again. So some pages become totally new.
The numbers of page below show the position of the missing frames in the new publication.
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The seven crystal balls


Main page (page 1)
2 frames page 2
Page 8 (3rd line)
5 frames page 57
4 frames page 59

Prisoners of the sun


2 frames page 3 (2nd line)
13 frames page 6 (3nd line)
4 frames page 10 (1st line)
6 frames page 20
3 frames page 22 (3rd line)
5 frames pages 22 (3rd line)
Whole page 22
7 frames page 37
Whole page page 44

   
Some dandails can change, as in the original version of The land of black gold in 1950, where a few frames were added and redrawn.
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In Destination Moon, you will find the last strip of Tintin Journal published in septembre 1952 and the synopsis of the adventure done a year a half after.
Some boards of Explorers of the moon were published in le Journal de Tintin in February 1953 and are totally unview for the ones who only have the Casterman edition.
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Unpublished Strip
Last Strip
Synopsis of the adventur
Page 13
Page 16


Strip Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Page 4
Strip Page 5
Page 6
Page 7
Page 8
Page 9

Missing scene where Nestor manage to avoid Jolyon Wagg oring conversation.
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End Strip

One of the missing scene in Tintin in Tibet page 37.
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Page 37

An error occured when Hergé was drawing the story. It was only meant to be 62 pages long, but when he finished, it was found to be 64 pages long. Two pages were removed. The two omitted pages were meant to have appeared toward the end of the story, and covered the rescue of Tintin's group from the erupting volcano.

The omission meant that the reader now sees a cliffhanger. At the bottom of one page a seaplane-set reporter watching the raft holding Tintin's group exclaims (in the English translation), "They'll be boiled alive like lobsters! We've got to do something." On the next page "Thousands of miles away, several days later", the story switches to Jolyon Wagg's living room as his family watches a TV interview of Tintin and his friends.
(source: Tintin et Moi - Interview of Hergé)



The first strip of the adventure had to be redrawn. The Studio Hergé didn't realised the carnivalof Santheodoros was in March !! Which makes it Le premier bandeau de l'aventure est réalisé par les Studios en pensant que le Carnaval de Santheodors se passe en été... et bien en mars, il fait beaucoup moins beau.
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Unpublished strip
Page 22bis